Art Quotes

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

History develops, art stands still.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

I played football for a long time when I was a kid, and then I went to art college and turned my back on it. Because of that, my toes are mangled; they've been broken. They're like hooves or talons. They're disgusting. I'd never get them out.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

I like to learn. That's an art and a science.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?